High Expectations, Few Incentives - PTCB Pharmacy Technician Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
Jun 4, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Decent pay for floor members, half-decent coworkers and paid holidays if you work enough

Cons

Upper management cuts hours every week, but expects you to meet a new metric constantly; pay increases are not guaranteed and are based off of an inconsistent merit scale which varies wildly from one team to another; technicians are vastly underpaid compared to other pharmacies; a lot of talk about improving teamwork, but they're mainly empty promises; problem employees can plague a store for YEARS and gather outrageous amounts of complaintd before they're fired, presumably because Walgreens is worried about getting sued

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Cons

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Pros

Can be a fun environment. All in whom your staff is. Operating photo was fun and building projects for the customers. Learning about pharmacy operations.

Cons

Work life balance and low pay for what is expected. Not having enough payroll to effectively run a store. My store ran FE on a 320 hour a week budget. That was barely enough to get buy and meet the expectations put out by the company. I was never able to keep a full leadership staff. When a leader called out, I had to stay. There were days I was called away from my own dinner table. SM's were forced to be in the pharmacy for more than half of their day regardless as to what is happening in the FE. I worked over 50 hours a week and barely got to spend time with my family. If I wasn't at the store I was getting a phone call and having to go back to the store.

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